Thanks to favourable weather during spring, here in southern France, there is much more butterflies in 2017 than last year. In August, a pale clouded yellow (Colias hyale) performs a superb looping in flight in front of the lens of my camera !

This large green grasshopper, a large conehead (Ruspolia nitidula), owes its common name to the original shape of its head, clearly visible here in profile. It leaps to hide in the grass, taking advantage of her exoquelette, which is the same color as the grass. The large conehead also has large wings that allow it to fly over far away.

This picture of a female ichneumonid swhows a long tube at the end of the abdomen. It is used by the wasp to pierce the wall of the nest of mud dauber in order to deposit its eggs on the sceliphron larvae. Young larvae of icheneumon acroricnus will then feed from lava from their host.

This photograph is nothing other than the precision test of the triggering of my new Hasselblad H6D-100c camera. The goal was to succeed in placing the focal plan right on the large eye of the dragonfly while using a large aperture, thus a narrow depth of field. Successful results!

Even though the mornings are very cold in early spring, a small butterfly is already flying along the paths on the edge of the forest, the Meadow brown. It is this very common butterfly that I photographed in flight at the end of April 2017.

This little butterfly looks like a devil because of the profile of its wings. In reality, it allows the butterfly to melt into the beige vegetation of early spring. When a coma stays landed, wings folded, he becomes invisible. This little butterfly has a very lively flight which makes it one of my favorite subjects in early spring.

Winter is still here. However, the days are already longer and the sun is less pale. Nature begins to wake up and prepares the arrival of spring in the image of this hazel tree photographed at the end of February.

Data :

Hasselblad H5D-60

Lens : HC 120 mm f/4 macro

Maginification : 0,25

Exposure : 1/250s at f/10 - ISO 80

Lighting : 3 flash units

November 2016 - Movie recorded with a medium format camera (Hasselblad H6D-100c)

The photo of the month is a short video recorded with a Hasselblad H6D-100c.

Footage recorded in RAW format UHD-4K using an enormous medium format sensor (used area of ​​30x53 mm). Hasselblad H6D-100c camera equipped with the HC 300mm f / 4.5 lens. White balance set to natural daylight and sensitivity at 1600 and 3200 ISO. Conversion of the RAW files into Cinema DNG with the Hasselblad Phocus software and then editing in Adobe Premier Pro CC 2017.

The purpose of this short footage is only to give an idea of ​​the image rendering obtained when recording with a medium format camera. To be continued ...

The little white butterfly flies between the leaves that have taken the warm hues of autumn. The white wings of the butterfly contrast with the dark tones of the vegetation. This picture was taken during a dynamic test of the new body Hasselblad H6D-100c equipped with an impressive full size 4.5x6 CMOS sensor of 100 Mpix!

The small damselfly flies in an absolute silence between the aquatic plants. It enjoys the last warm days of early autumn. Soon, it will not be there and the edge of the pond will spend all winter without the dragonflies that were flying over its banks.